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Mum and Dad would regularly drive down to West Wittering from High Wycombe in our ancient Ford Anglia and queue for ages to get into the car park for a days bathing and playing in the sand dunes. As a treat at the end of the day ...Read more

A memory of East Wittering by drs57

Born 1944 I grew up in a house on the Great West Road, between Springwell Lane and the Broadwalk. My first great adventure: a tricycle with which I nearly broke the legs of several pedestrians. Springwell infants' school on what had been ...Read more

A memory of Heston by tilburycm

Wayne’s comment made me re-read my piece and I was driven to expand. This is St Gile’s Church. My parents were baptised and married here in 1937 and I was baptised and then confirmed by Mervyn Stockwood here. To ...Read more

A memory of Camberwell by Richard Norman

My grandparents George and Phyllis Milton lived at 4 Falmouth house I remember as a kid looking down to the back of a butcher's also remember Maurice Mansell who lived on the top floor very large family the dad was ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth by colincampbell055

I went to a school called Fedsden Hall, in Roydon in Essex, in 1950-53. It was a wonderful place run by Mrs. Katherine Clare. Mrs. Clare lived in a big, beautiful Georgian house on the property, with her husband, who I ...Read more

A memory of Roydon by canadagoose

While visiting friend in a local nursing home I was walking down the corridor admiring the prints of local interest, When a was drawn to a print of Lammas street and to the Willow Café which was owned by my Grandmother , while ...Read more

A memory of Carmarthen by iaucaroline

Who remembers kenington Manor junior next to the wavey line the head master was Mr Saxtey, nearly every assembly was Cat Stevens Morning has broken. Unfortunately the red brick building has gone replaced by a housing estate! 1972 wot ...Read more

A memory of Sunbury by 123delbe

Hi Guys , Another piece of East End literature from Vic B , I was thinking back the other day of the things that made me laugh as a youngster growing up in the East End although it must have applied to the whole ...Read more

A memory of South Hackney by vickyb60

my name is Charlie lewis I was born in llanharryand my grandparents lived at 40 tylacoch they wer named Richard and alice lewis .my aunts and uncles all lived in tylacoch . They were dilys price and eddie lewis .Iwas born in 1953 and we ...Read more

A memory of Llanharry by lewisrcharlie8

Back in 1966 or possibly 1967 a friend of mine, now in her seventies and with a memory that is to say the best, sketchy, went on holiday from her home town of Sheffield to Ostend in Belgium. There she met a young man called Ian who ...Read more

A memory of Balham by dodgyrogerlindley